The Lost City (2022)

  Surprisingly, this is a Tyler pick.  Don't get me wrong, I was planning on watching it eventually (despite Channing Tatum) but probably not for 5-7 business years.

Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) turned to writing romance novels to fund her and her husband's archeology digs.  Now widowed, Loretta finds continuing too painful so she announces that "The Lost City of D" is her final novel, to the dismay of her cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum), who had portrayed her fictional hero "Dash" to great renown.  He wants Loretta to reconsider but never finds the right things to say to her. And then she gets kidnapped by an insane billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) because the archeological trappings of "The Lost City of D" actually point to a real lost city on a remote Atlantic island with a real lost treasure.  Alan calls in a favor from a shady dude he met in a meditation retreat to track Loretta's location so he can rescue her.

There are a lot of pretenders to the crown of Romancing the Stone and this is probably the closest in tone without being a total carbon copy.  Bullock is always good, Radcliffe is hilarious, and Tatum is begrudgingly decent as a human golden retriever.  (He has grown on me but I still can only tolerate small doses.)

As you all know, I'm not a big rom-com person but this was very funny, very fast-paced, and all-around entertaining.  If you were on the fence, give it a shot.  It's worth it.  

The Lost City is currently streaming on Paramount+.